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...HOLMES-POLLOCK LETTERS Mr. Justice Holmes & Sir Frederick Pollock-Harvard (2 vols...
Last week readers of the Holmes-Pollock Letters found that he was also coauthor of one of the great collections of U.S. letters. The other author was Sir Frederick Pollock, a shy, learned Englishman who was one of the greatest authorities on the English common law, author of Principles of Contract, and The Law of Torts...
First letter (from Pollock to Holmes) is dated 1874; the last (from Holmes to Pollock) is dated 1932. What they wrote in between fills two volumes of 275 and 309 pages, superbly edited by Biographer Mark DeWolfe Howe. When they began writing each other letters, Holmes was 33, Pollock, 28. When they stopped writing Holmes was 91. They wrote through eight wars and nine revolutions. During all this troubled time the two men sat at or near the heart of government of the world's two greatest powers. But they did not write about wars and revolutions in their...
...Medical School recipients are Cecil F. Baxter 1M,; McLemore Bouchelle 1M., Theodore S. Cobbey Jr. 1M., Carmer Hadley 1M., Thomas V. Hedley 1M., George W. Henry 1M., Harry F. Hinckley Jr. 1M., Francis R. Lane 1M., William F. Pollock 1M., William Ridder 1M., Israel H. Scheinberg 1M., Daniel Sciarra 1M., and Chiu-an Wang...
From Alexander Pollock, General Manager of Montreal's Henry Morgan & Co., Ltd., came front-line support for McNair's prognosis. He said that while retail sales in Canada had increased 12% in 1940, profits had become "very much less," that "mark-on [i.e. markup] is becoming more and more difficult to maintain." Some Canadian retailers have had to hire 50% more employes to take the place of experienced help drafted...